Cigar or cigarette.



No. 657,403. Ph'tentd Sept-4, I900.

N. DU BRUL.

CIGAR 0R CIGARETTE.

(Application filed June 24,- 1899.)

(No Model.)

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NAPOLEON DU BRUL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

CIGAR OR CIGARETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,403, datedSeptember 4, 1900.

Application filed June 24, 1899- Serial No. 721,756. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NAPOLEON DU BRUL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State ofOhio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Small Cigarsor Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manufacture of small cigars or cigarettes ofthe character commonly known as all-tobacco cigarettes, in which thefiller is generally made up of short or cut tobacco of good quality,designated as scrap. Cigars or cigarettes of this character when madeshaped, or with enlarged diameter between the ends, have always beenprovided with a binder as well as a wrapper. Such shaped all-tobaccocigarettes are recognized in the market as an entirely distinct articlefrom the straight cylindrical cigarette. tured they have always beenmade with both a binder and a wrapper. The use of a binder in thesesmall articles is objectionable, because it is made of a lower grade ofmaterial, and under the limit of weight prescribed by theinternal-revenue laws this inferior binder forms too large a proportionof the article, and therefore reduces the commercial value of theproduct.

One feature of my invention consists in 'making an all-tobacco cigaretteout of a shaped short or cut tobacco-filler with but a single piece ofleaf serving as both binder and wrapper, whereby I am enabled to make upthe bulk of the article of the good filler material. 7

Another feature of my invention consists in forming the wrapper with acurved pasting edge, whereby I am enabled to produce a small cigar orcigarette having a much larger As heretofore manufac- Figure 1represents a shaped filler made up ofshort or cut filler material. Fig.2 is a plan of my preferred form of wrapper, which is used without abinder. Fig. 3 is a view representing the finished article. Fig.trepresents a straight cylindrical filler made up of cut or short fillermaterial. Fig. 5 is a plan of wrapper which may be used in connectionwith a straight cylindrical filler and which embodies the feature of thecurved pasting edge. Fig. 6 is a view'of a finished cylindricalcigarette-in which the wrapper has a curved pasting edge. a

A represents a shaped filler made up of short or cut filler material,the intermediate diameter of which is larger than that of the ends. Thisshaped filler may be given one of the numerous cigar-shape forms, and itis wrapped in a single piece of leaf B without the interposition of abinder. The wrapper B is preferably formed with a curved starting edge1, which adapts the wrapper to be rolled in a direction normal to theaxis of the filler and to conform to the enlargement between the ends.Said wrapper is likewise provided with a curved pasting edge 2, whichwhen the wrapper is applied assumes a position substantiallylongitudinal of the fillerthat is, with the chord of the edges curverunning longitudinally of the filler. The result of applying the wrapperB to the fillerA is illustrated in Fig. 3.

The feature of the curved pasting edge is applicable to straight orcylindrical fillers with some of the advantages incident to its use ofthe shaped filler. I therefore do not confine myself to the use of thisparticular feature on a shaped filler; but I may use anapproximately-rectangular Wrapper B, Fig. 5, upon a straight cylindricalfiller. A, Fig. 4, with the result shown by the finished article in Fig.6.

Cigars or cigarettes constructed in accord ance with the abovedescription will avoid the use of a binder, will have a very much largerappearance in comparison to the weight of the article, and will permitthe use of a very much larger, proportion of good filler IOO Having thusdescribed my invention the itsourved edges substantially longitudinal offollowing is what I claim as'new therein and the cigar or cigarette;

desire to secure by Letters Patent: V Y

A combined binder and'wrapper for cigars a 5 01' cigarettes having acurved starting edge I Witnesses: I

and a curved pasting edge adapted to be WALTER. ALLEN, wound straightabout a filler so as to bring EDWIN S. OLARKSON.

NAPOLEON. BRUL.

